This study investigates the causal relationship between poverty reduction and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in South Africa using time-series data from 1980 to 2014. The main objective of this study is to establish the direction of causality between FDI and poverty reduction, which is...

This paper analyses the macroeconomic drivers of stock market development in the Philippines during the period 2001Q4-2016Q4. In particular, the paper examines the impact of banking sector development, inflation rate, exchange rate, economic growth, trade openness and stock market liquidity on...

This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Botswana from 1980 to 2014. The main objective of this study is to establish whether FDI plays a positive role in poverty reduction. The study employs autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)...

This paper investigates the direct impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Tanzania between 1980 and 2014. The paper attempts to answer one critical question: Does FDI reduce poverty in Tanzania? The study employs three poverty reduction proxies, namely,...